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Incident Reports (FIDA)

Once passed for publication, all new incident reports submitted via the FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system will be made available on this page.

In the meantime all the 2025/6 reports submitted via the Euro system, and passed for publication before it was shut down, can be found below. Reports submitted via the earlier BHPA online reporting system can also be found below.

This page will slowly include the remaining incident report submitted via the old Euro system.

Unfortunately, whilst all of these reports were successfully imported into the FIDA database by our German colleagues, they failed to include the status of the "publish" field which determines if a report can appear on our website.

As a result around 1,400 old Euro reports have to be reviewed and cross checked before they can be included here. This is a painfully slow process, and is likely to take some time to complete.

All incident reports submitted via the old Euro system, and approved for publication, are however available on our Incident Reports Archive page

Summaries of published incident reports are available for the following wing types:

You can also search the BHPA incident reports database by incident date, pilot, location, wing type, etc. For example, if you want to search for paraglider incidents at Hay Bluff, select paraglider from the drop down list, and enter Hay Bluff in the search box with the "or" option selected.

To search by incident date, please enter the day, month and year numerically as dd-mm-yyyy (eg. 03-12-2019).

If known, total flights flown and flights flown in the past six months are displayed below, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 1737 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 05.06.2004 (B3809)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Emergency chute deployed accidentally on approach for slope landing. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 03.06.2004 (B3806)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: Novice	Location Swyne Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student flared too late and caught leg under harness on landing,.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg

Date 03.06.2004 (B3807)	Pilot Rating: Novice	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student found himself 6m in the air on farward launch ground handle practice. Stalled glider and landed heavily on back.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.06.2004 (B3804)	Pilot Male Age: 39	Location UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Arrangement of loops and eyelets on harness prevented emergency chute from deploying during repack.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.06.2004 (B3805)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Oasis Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot noticed at take off that a riser maillon was stretched and lines had come out, probably on previous flight.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 31.05.2004 (B3803)	Pilot Male Age: 31	Location Nont Sarahs, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot was ground handling glider after landing. Snagged line and was flung onto rocks.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg

Date 30.05.2004 (B3802)	Pilot Male Age: 35	Location UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Kimfly River Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Mid air collision resulting in serious injury to one of the pilots. Pilot 1 turned at end of ridge and collided with pilot 2 who was following. Neither were seen to take avoiding action.	Injury Pilot: Fr back, fr ribs

Date 29.05.2004 (B3800)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P	Location Colley Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Oasis Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at 6m ato in gusty, turbulent conditions and was unable to recover glider before hitting the hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs

Date 29.05.2004 (B3801)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Parlick, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot turned too tight due to proximity to hill. Probably caused spin then stalled in trying to recover surge.	Injury Pilot: Bruising, cracked rib

Date 25.05.2004 (B3798)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: P	Location Agy, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 5 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had to take avoiding action when on finals to avoid collision with another paraglider that had been carrying out 360s low to the ground. Turning sharply to avoid the collision caused the glider to dive and the pilot pendulumed into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 vertebra

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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